Snake Juice
Peter Kelly reponded to the post about rattlesnake vodka with this photograph he took in Vietnam. The caption reads
These are artistically arranges snakes in bottles of liquor. People drink this. Really.
Link -Thanks, Peter!
These are artistically arranges snakes in bottles of liquor. People drink this. Really.
Link -Thanks, Peter!
Jerse
They put all sorts of animals in their liquor bottles over there. They think they can drink the animals characteristics or some jazz like that...
karina
it's their culture and we can't blame them for it
Pudifoot
You can by snake wine all over the place in Vietnam.
Pudifoot
supposedly it does wonders for back pain. O.o
Colin
Pudifoot, so does Tequila...
Carl Huber
It's incredibly common in those cultures. There's a video of the foul mouthed TV Chef and one of the Top Gear guys drinking the stuff. I posted it over on my forum; let me see if I can find it.
Here it is:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M
I'd love to try the stuff just to say I had, but the quality of the liquor is I'm sure absolute crap.
The REALLY fowl stuff (pun intended) is some nordic or icelandic or inuit cultures (apologies, I don't remember which) actually put birds into bottles. That's very dangerous - much higher likelihood of contamination. The other animals aren't really that big of a deal.
binky
They make snake cachaca in Brazil too.
RooGrrrl
Dude! That's 3 Snake Wine! An ex-boyfriend of mine found some of that when he was doing a moving job for a Chinese restaurant. The proprietor told him it would make him sexually attractive and so he drank some of it. Maybe it worked, I sure thought he was hot.
Justin
nice picture, and Carl Thanks a lot for the link that was hilarious!
oakling
I love how we're not supposed to reuse plastic water bottles because the chemicals will leach into the water, but RATTLESNAKES... that's just fine.
Oomi
Gaah, that pic made me cringe.
Pudifoot
oakling: i think you meant to comment on the previous (and very similar) post. XD
Peter
They sell this type in China too. I had the opportunity to try snake wine (because how badass does it sound to say you've drank snake?) but I had to decline for the rat one.. that was.. wrong to say the elast.
Christophe
It's also a specialty in the French Alps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_hibou/108307184/
Ashe
Oh yea, we were told by the older Vietnamese guy that he has a glass every morning because it makes him stronger, but the rat wine - that's only for special occasions!
It is absolutely foul by the way!!
loremIpsum
It is correct, that you find snakes in rice wine in about every shop in Viet Nam. The monkeys are harder to find though:
http://www.plan-b.in/22-February-06.81.0.html
ELLERY
Not to burst any bubbles, but that looks like a cobra instead of a rattle snake. I live in Texas, and we are replete with the nasty critters.
Maddy
I've had this stuff. The first shot made me projectile puke, but the second one wasn't too bad. By the third or fourth my mouth was numb anyway.
fluff
Makes me kind of sad 
fergieferg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZZXcRFpFAg
I had some of the stuff, a friend has a neighbor that is from Vietnam, he had a few bottles of it. They poured the shot before I got to see the bottle, it was pretty potent stuff.
D
Went back to the motherland and bought some of that stuff but with scorpions instead. Supposedly great for manly type stuff...
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